GOP rips Dem silence on anti-Semitism in Wall Street protests

The Republican National Committee is calling out Democratic leaders for ignoring episodes of anti-Semitism in the Occupy Wall Street protests.

The GOP argues the Democrats are holding a double standard by ripping the Tea Party for incidents of racism in the movement while letting slide anti-Semitic comments by demonstrators protesting corporate greed.

Spicerâs memo included links to videos on YouTube that showed a few protestors making anti-Semitic statements.

âI think that the Zionist Jews who are running these big banks and our federal reserve, which is not run by the federal government, I think they need to be run out of this country,â said one protester, who identified herself as an employee of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

âYouâre a bum, Jew!â another protester yelled at an Israeli man.

During the rise of the Tea Party in 2009, some on the right were upset with media and political focus on similar instances of isolated extremism, and the attempt by some to paint the entire movement as racist.

âDemocrats were quick to single out any instances of perceived extremism among Tea Party supporters, but with Occupy Wall Street, they turn a blind eye,â Spicer continued. âPresident Obama claimed last weekend that Martin Luther King would support the demonstrations. But surely Dr. King would have called out these ugly displays of bigotry.â